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President Obama is clearly right — and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is wrong — about the Iran nuclear negotiations. But the broader and more consequential question of Iran's place in the world is much more complicated. As I've written, I don't fault Netanyahu for aggressively defending Israel's interests as he sees them. Next week's planned speech to Congress is House Speaker John Boehner's fault; I don't blame the Israeli leader for accepting an invitation that never should have been offered. But I do believe that Netanyahu's position on Iran's nuclear program is wildly unrealistic. Netanyahu wants the negotiations to...

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President Obama is clearly right — and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is wrong — about the Iran nuclear negotiations. But the broader and more consequential question of Iran's place in the world is much more complicated.
As I've written, I...

The last 14 years have been tough for followers of Islam. The fallout after 9-11 and recent incidents including ISIS atrocities and the Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris undercut Islam's trademark as a religion of peace. And it bred scorn and distrust of...

While Iran's march toward a nuclear bomb has provoked a major clash between the White House and Congress, Iran's march toward conventional domination of the Arab world has been largely overlooked. In Washington, that is. The Arabs have noticed. And the...

Is it any wonder that an overwhelming majority of Americans of all backgrounds continue to support Israel until a more constructive and positive Palestinian Arab leadership emerges to accept the olive branch of peace offered on numerous occasions?
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After reading Zahi Khouri's guest column on Sept. 26, I was left aghast by the assertion that "Israel must do more..." Israel wants nothing more than for the West Bank and Gaza to function independently and without interference. The open...

Ten years old and confused, Patrick Harb and his brothers were rushed from their grandparents' home down a steep mountainside to the American Embassy.
The trip took less than an hour before the boys were flown in a U.S. Marine helicopter to Cyprus, an...

Charley Reese, a retired Orlando Sentinel columnist who for decades argued forcefully for less government and more personal freedom, died Tuesday. He was 76.
Reese, who lived in Seminole County, died of respiratory failure after a long illness, family...

The Oscar-nominated French Canadian drama “Incendies” takes us from Montreal to Lebanon as two 30ish siblings try to unravel the mystery of their mother's life and flight from that country decades before. Not that it identifies those locales right

This French-Canadian drama, largely set in Lebanon, was an Oscar contender this year. It's a tale of adult children of a troubled immigrant mother who set off to solve the mystery that was her dying wish — finding their father and their lost brother back

Cinematique Daytona's programming continues to impress as they make the most of their new cinema-cafe downtown location. “Lebanon, Pa.,” is the latest indie to make its regional bow there. Sort of a “film festival movie,” wistful, low-k

Joe Nelms delivered an unusual prayer inspired by the comedic film about NASCAR "Talladega Nights," starring Saturday Night Live alum Will Ferrell. Nelms thanked God for his "smoking hot wife" and concluded the prayer with the words from the popular comedy "b

Religion News Service's Daniel Burke rounds up stories about the death of Ambassador John Christopher Stevens, who was killed in a violent reaction in Libya to an anti-Muslim video: U.S. Ambassador to Libya John Christopher Stevens and three other Americans we

St. Jude Catholic Church, the only Maronite church in the Orlando Diocese, has been designated as one of six pilgrimage sites in recognition of the Year of St. Maron. The pilgrimage mass will be celebrated Sunday, Aug. 29 at 4 p.m. The church is located...

We can smell the sweat, urine and diesel fuel in “Lebanon.” We can taste the exhaust, the metallic tang of explosive fumes from a shell ejected from the cannon. This grimly claustrophobic Israeli melodrama is set in wartime in a tank. Samuel Maoz's

(This column was originally published in the Orlando Sentinel on Feb. 3, 1984.) Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are...

Secretary of State John Kerry told wary lawmakers on Tuesday that it was premature to criticize nuclear negotiations with Iran before any deal can be reached to keep Tehran from developing atomic weapons. "The president has made clear — I can't state...

A heavy winter storm descended on parts of the Middle East on Friday, with snow forcing the closure of all roads leading in and out of Jerusalem and sprinkling Israel's desert with a rare layer of white. Snow also fell in parts of the West Bank,...

The leader of the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group has appealed to his supporters not to celebrate with gunfire when he speaks this week. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah's statement comes after a host of Lebanese politicians denounced the rash of celebratory...

The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah group has strongly denounced the Islamic State group's beheading of a group of Egyptian Christian hostages in Libya. In a speech to hundreds of his supporters in southern Beirut Monday, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah says the...